Sales taxes in the seven-county metro jumped a penny on the dollar on Oct. 1, after the Legislature voted in May to create more permanent funding for transit and housing. The 1% increase means all ...

Read more. Story idea? [email protected]. Ben Franklin Transit’s board is reviving a push to reduce its local sales tax, at a time when the transit system could already be set to lose ...

But it’s not the first one. A 2008 transit “doomsday” resulted in state lawmakers raising the RTA sales tax, with part of the proceeds spinning off to the Collar Counties to pay for ...

If Walz’s proposal stands, even more of the transit sales tax would be shifted away from other government budgets. Now that the Minnesota Legislature is finally meeting in earnest, with power ...

This vote provides a much-needed ray of hope for public transportation in the Bay Area,” Sen. Scott Wiener said in a ...

The city of Charlotte said Tuesday there won’t be a countywide vote on a penny sales tax increase for transit this year, even if the General Assembly OKs placing the tax on the ballot in its ...

compare property tax funding for transit with sales tax funding. Property tax is a more equitable way to collect revenue than a sales tax that even applies to groceries as Nashville’s does.